Correction needed here: JV wasn't talking about LM's total income/sales/etc. but ONLY about the P3D team income...! Which obviously will make quite a difference with the numbers you are quoting. And which makes the statement even more interesting.

 

Well that is true Jeroen - which does indeed make it more interesting.  

Pay the admission and attend an I/ITSEC convention, and you'll quickly see that John Venema is pretty close to the mark.  I used to run the entire USAF budget for simulation and DMO at the Pentagon, and I can tell you there are enormous sums of money in play for institutional users of these kinds of products--more so today than ever before because simulation is so much cheaper than live training.

 

Regards

This hits the nail squarely on the head, and from someone who has actually walked the walk! 

 

It is not so much just the software itself, but everything that LM wraps around it: buildings, computers, monitors, chairs, everything, and at 250 bucks for a toilet seat we know how that can add up!

 

 

I find it strange that he has his "followers" in the light of how he thinks about them. But hey, if people what to hang on to his words thats great, each to there own

 

To be fair, I have enormous respect for what he has done for flightsimming over the last few years.  There is no doubt that Orbx revolutionised our simming experience tenfold.   JV has a brash personality,  but I guess you must have a thick skin to do what he's doing.  With that comes controversial commentary and some drama...

 

 

Just curious what you all think about this.   

 

What he said sounds like simple logic.